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Great Exhibition of Van Gogh Pictures to Open October 21; First U.S. Showing will be at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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GREATTXHIBITION OF VAN GOGH PICTURES TO OPEN OCTOBER 21;
FIRST U.S. SHOWING WILL BE AT METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Paintings and drawings by Vincent Van Gogh will go on exhibition at the
Metropolitan Museum on October 21, it was announced today by Theodore Rousseau, Jr.,
the Metropolitan's Curator of Paintings. Following the New York showing, which
will continue through January 15, 1950, the pictures will go to Chicago for display
at the Art Institute there from February 1 through April 15.
The exhibition, the most comprehensive showing of Van Gogh's work ever to be
presented in this country, is being arranged by the two American museums in collaboration with The Minister of Public Education of The Netherlands, Vincent W.
Van Gogh of Laren, Holland, and a number of American collections.
Just returned from Holland, where, with Daniel Catton Rich, Director of the
Chicago Art Institute, he has been choosing paintings and drawings to be sent to
the United States for this exhibition, Mr. Rousseau spoke enthusiastically of the
range and importance of the display.
"Selection was made," he said, "from, the two greatest collections of the
artist's work in the world. The Dutch State is lending notable examples from the
Kroller-Miiller Museum at Otterlo, but the majority of the pictures will come from
the collection now in the possession of Vincent W. Van Gogh, the artist's nephew,
who is head of the Van Gogh Foundation.
"This is not only a very significant collection," Mr. Rousseau continued,
"but a very touching one. It takes us into the intimate life and struggles of the
artist, containing as it does many of his sketches and unfinished paintings--experiments which he made in his ceaseless efforts to develop his own characteristic
and highly original style."
95 paintings have been chosen for tlae exhibition, 48 of which will come from
the Van Gogh Collection, 18 from the KroMler-MUller Museum and the rest from
American collections and other sources. Of these only 17 were included in the
last great exhibition of the artist's work which traveled through this country in
1935. Also on display Will be 67 of Van Gogh's drawings, only 4 of which have
been shown here before.
"The drawings," Mr. Rousseau explained, "are particularly fascinating, for
they reveal a striking development of style. Van Gogh began in the great Dutch
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